Crater—an on-demand transportation service app—is the brainchild of two NYIT School of Engineering and Computing Sciences students that will allow people to call a driver with a pick-up truck to bring their goods home.

On November 15, nearly 100 guests and members of the NYIT community joined Dean Nada Anid, Ph.D., NYIT President Hank Foley in a ceremonial ribbon cutting for the new cybersecurity lab, funded by a $400,000 ESD grant.

NYIT, with support from Santo Domingo’s Instituto Tecnológico de las Américas (ITLA), Dominican non-profit Fundación Global Democracia y Desarrollo, Dominican business incubator Parque Cibernético de Santo Domingo, and NYIT’s business accelerator, the Entrepreneurship and Technology Innovation Center (ETIC), received a grant of USD $25,000 to support a cross-border partnership and to create a “joint entrepreneurship ecosystem” for students in both countries.

Whether discussing the security of people’s private health and financial data or the critical infrastructure of smart cities, New York Institute of Technology's annual cybersecurity conference will spur dialogue around increasingly complex challenges faced by the cybersecurity community.

NYIT School of Engineering and Computing Sciences issues five $17,500 grants, funded by a $100,000 award from Northrop Grumman for Training and Research Programs at NYIT’s Cybersecurity Research Center and StartUp NY Facility. The grants will support faculty and student research in secure data networks, Internet of Things (IoT), and biometrics.